An 89-year-old woman in Saitama, north of Tokyo, has been competing in the demanding sport of bench pressing. Iida Noriko won ...

The new system upgrades the city's old flextime model, which previously allowed workers to take one weekday off every four ...

The Japanese government will utilize the vigor of companies to support child rearing at households, Hitoshi Kikawada, minister for policies related to children, regional revitalization, women's ...

The Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court has handed down a three-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, to a 71-year-old woman convicted of killing her 102-year-old mother at their ...

Amid a continuing shift toward nuclear families, demand for postnatal care services that support mothers and newborns after childbirth is rising across Japan. Provided by midwives and trained ...

Australian cyclist Paige Greco, a Paralympic gold medalist, has died at 28. The Australian Paralympic Committee and cycling ...

Lawmakers and support groups for women are calling for legal revisions to the anti-prostitution law to punish patrons and ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed in the left side of her abdomen and other areas by a man with a knife outside a live music venue in the basement of a commercial building in the Akasaka district of ...

Dhanush Srikanth smashed the world deaf record in 10m Air Rifle enroute to win India's first gold medal in shooting at the ...

Indian shooters dominated Day 1 of the Deaflympics, with Dhanush Srikanth breaking world record and leading India to four ...

Results for the MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, and submission grappling action at ONE 173 in Tokyo, Japan, on November 16 at ...

Police in Tokyo are hunting for a male suspect after receiving a report Sunday morning (Nov 16) that a woman was stabbed in the capital's Minato Ward.